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ADAM PORTRAITURE AWARD 2024
Friday 30 August, 6:00PM
Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford.
NOW SHOWING
31 August - 13 October
The Adam Portraiture Award is Aotearoa’s most prestigious and popular portraiture prize.
The biennial competition for painted portraits is held at The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata and generously sponsored by the Adam Foundation. The Adam Portraiture Award provides painters from Aotearoa at all stages of their careers with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording the changing face of Aotearoa.
The inaugural competition was held in 2000 and called the National Portrait Competition. It has been known as the Adam Portraiture Award since 2002. Since 2006 the winning artworks have been acquired into the New Zealand Portrait Gallery collection. In 2020 the Award expanded its judging panel to two judges.
First Prize: $20,000
Runner up: $2,500
People’s Choice: $2,500
The Adam Portraiture Award is generously funded by the Adam Foundation
WINNER
Maryanne Shearman (Taranaki)
Tuhi-Ao
oil on canvas
2024
“Tuhi-Ao Bailey is one of Aotearoa’s leading climate activists, an unwavering voice for kaitiakitanga. She has always struck me as a person living her kaupapa, authentic to a fault. I initially planned on capturing her characteristic solemn expression; I hoped her mournful eyes would disrupt us, but in the end she and I decided on this pose - a full smile mid-kōrero, and a gesture which catches the light. She is standing in the Parihaka food-forest, next to the awa Waitotoroa. Ko ia te whenua, ko te whenua ko ia.”
Taranaki Review:
In Miniature 2024
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Online Entries now open;
DUE DATE: by 11:59pm,
1 December 2024
OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES - Online submission form below.
ONE ARTWORK TO ENTER
Must be equal to or less than 200 x 200 x 200mm (20 x 20 x 20cm). The Gallery Director prefers as miniature as possible!
Eligible Artists must be born, attended Taranaki secondary school, and/ or currently reside in Taranaki.
For more information, T&C's or to enter your artwork for the exhibition, click on the button below!
OPEN CALL EXHIBITION
Artwork examples from the Taranaki Review: In Miniature 2022. Work by Rohan Wealleans, Joshua Sands and Laurel Davis. All works measure MINIATURE, less than 200 x 200 x 200mm.